#Sherlock's first case

[abstractfrog]

that doesn't sound right but i don't know enough about receiving valentines to dispute it

[gilgamushroom]

Ok catching up with letters from watson and blanched soldier makes so many of watson's narratives SO hilarious in retrospect líke

Watson's POV: So yeah! I'm always loyal to Holmes even though he doesn't care about me that much :/ but it's alright cause he has a High Intellect and therefore no room for human emotions. Honestly half of the time I'm not even able to keep up with him it's a wonder he sticks with me but I suppose it's part of his habits as a Genius. One time I was briefly sure he had feelings and it made my entire year

Holmes's POV, right off the bat: So I'm recording this case and today I learnt that writing is so hard? Watson is SO good at keeping the public interested. He's so good at so many things. He's smart and incredible and delightful and the ideal helpmate and he's too humble to ever talk about this!! >:( He's my old friend btw. And Biographer. One time he got married AND LEFT ME ALL ALONE IN THE RAIN O SO CRUELY AND SELFISHLY but i forgive him because that's literally the only bad thing he has ever done in his entire life <3 I miss him so much when he's not here :(( Have I mentioned he's my friend? Where was I going with this. Oh yeah. Case.

[fogdraws]

Watching The Empty House and oh my god Watson literally fell to the ground when he saw Holmes alive again THAT'S emotion and then LOOK AT HIS FACE he's so happy my heart 🥺🥺

Holmes, always keen to a dramatic touch. Like, my man's throwing ballet poses while he stretches just look at that

Also going from David Burke's To Edward Hardwick's Watson wasn't as shocking as I thought it'd be. He's just as charming as Burke.

Also also! I am SO drawing this frame:

[justapotato89]

"My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What may we deduce about his heart?" (A Scandal in Belgravia, S2E1) ask Mrs. Hudson. Oh he's not about thinking, not Sherlock. No, no, no. He's more emotional, isn't he? (The Lying Detective S4E2)

Mycroft you were supposed to the cleverer one. buddy you still miss facts in front of your face.

[tremendously-crazy]

What's a Sherlock Holmes mystery you think you could have solved? Say it in the tags!

[jessicas-pi]

For the au ask game! Sabezra in a *flips through my au ideas list* private detectives au

so. yeah. this. this is egregiously late. But it's HERE! At long last!

....to be entirely honest I don't even know what this is. it's sabezra. they're private detectives. let's just leave it at that.

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"Ezra, what are you doing?"

Her partner in preventing crime (and occasional partner in actual crime---they may or may not have broken into a house once; no one could prove anything) had stopped in the middle of the grim alleyway, staring at nothing in particular.

"Sabine..." he said slowly. "I think this is where I met you."

Sabine did a double-take, looking around with keen eyes. The place didn't seem familiar, but she'd been so distracted on that day, she probably wouldn't know it if she was there.

"Is it?" she asked, strolling back to him, hiking up her long skirt and stepping cautiously around the filth on the ground. "You think so?"

"Mm-hm." A nostalgic smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. "You know, I've still got the handkerchief you gave me."

Sabine grinned at him. "Of course you do. You were in the throes of violent yearning. You couldn't bear to part with it."

"And my nose was still bleeding."

"That too."

"And if you recall, I did try to give it back to you---later." His smile grew proud. "Tracked you down with just your monogram and a glimpse at your face. First bit of detecting I ever did."

Sabine slipped her arm through his, hopping lightly over something that could have been a filthy rag or maybe the carcass of a large rat, as they continued on their trek towards home. The streets cleared up when they got to the main roads, but there was still the inevitable splash of mud.

Mud was everywhere in London.

"I thought you might have been a princess when I saw you on the stairs then," he blurted out, and she tilted her head up to look at him from beneath the brim of her large flowered hat. He gave her a sweetly bashful smile and a shrug. "With those big white puffs in your hair---"

"Ostrich feathers," she filled in automatically, turning her attention back to the pavement and nodding politely to a gentleman and lady who passed by them.

"---and that white dress, too." Ezra laughed to himself. "Golly, you're lucky you kept it. Your old lady wasn't gonna give you a nickel for another one."

Sabine squeezed his arm affectionately. "I could have worn any dress."

"Well, no one would have thought it was a proper wedding if we hadn't got you in white."

"No one thought it was a proper wedding when we did," she retorted. "They thought I was degrading myself."

"Then the joke is on them, because I hit the big time pretty well, didn't I?"

Sabine arched an eyebrow. "You wouldn't have amounted to anything if I hadn't got us into the illustrated papers."

Ezra paused on the pavement as they reached the steps of their lodgings, looking thoughtful.

"You're right. I wouldn't have."

"Then it seems you're lucky you've got me."

He looked right into her eyes and grinned boyishly, slipping into his most intolerably trans-Atlantic accent. "We do make a pretty bang-up team, don't we?"

"A jolly good one," she nodded in prim agreement, adopting an obnoxiously posh tone, and they both giggled, smiling at each other for a moment more before a distant clock chimed the quarter of the hour, reminding them that they were on a schedule.

"Well, I suppose we had best go on in. Our client will be here any minute now."

"I guess so."

And with that, the unstoppable team of Bridger and Bridger ascended the steps of their home at 221b Spectre Street, arm-in-arm.

[itsnobodysproblem]

Ok well. Exactly one person said i should post these so. @theverycoolfish here they are

Sherlock and Co fic recs that I initially compiled for a friend of mine

Very subjective. Most of these are hurt/comfort.

I did attempt an order but it ended up an ambiguous mix of when I read them, when they take place and who wrote them so ehh. Yeah.

Overworked And Underslept, I Think by holyflyingswisscheese

Someone heard "Sherlock hasn't been feeling well" in reig and ran with it, this is the backstory

It's... So good… And it’s one of the first sh&co fics I read.

4k

seventy-four by SupposedToBeWriting (aka @organchordsandlightning )

Early days, they don't know how important they are/ will be to each other yet.

John is thrown off a balcony

(Such a good mix of lighthearted and angsty)

(Contains the funniest line I’ve heard in any Sh&Co fic)

4k

The Dancing Men: Part Four by dykeiel

SOOSOSO GOOD THE PERFECT FIC TO READ AFTER DANC IDK I LOVED IT

They talk!!!!

9k

The New War by ProjectOrthus

Post-Danc fic. Both of them are rattled. John's nightmares are back.

I don't remember to tell you more but I did leave this comment:

"Oh man... That was amazing. Wow. Just. Really.. wow"

8k

hey girl why are you dreaming about losing me every night by consistentjpw

POST DANC

There is One Quote in this fic...... Bro. BRO.

1k

hey girl why are you dreaming about my hands every night by consistentjpw

John's in love. Sherlock thinks he's mad at him :))

So you know how cringe John was in the early days? One thing he says in this fic rivals every cringe thing we ever heard from him. You have been warned.

I don't remember much about it tbh but I do remember I really liked it so

8k

hebb's law (anonymous)

Sherlock falls. Watson catches him. But he can't hold on.

Reichenbach feels.

Honestly so good wtf

3k

schrödinger's law (anonymous)

Fix-it fic to some other fic

John's dying. Dead already. Sherlock's trying to keep him alive.

2k

[Yes, I see you, person who read murphy’s law, it’s not on here because I haven’t read it yet. I know, I know. I will.]

No Words Needed by Coyote_Writes

Sherlock experiencing a dissociative episode. He goes and finds John.

Very well written. The prose, I mean.

1k

The Dying Detective by blush_bite

What it says on the tin. The Dying Detective story but make it sh&co.

15k

it only takes a taste (of your shoulder) by @lxvenderjewel

5+1 things but the things are Sherlock biting John lol

180 mood change at one point you have been warned

3k

much too blind to see (the damage that he's done) by lxvenderjewel

The girls are fightinnnn

Actually Sherlock is not, John just. Doesn't communicate his feelings. It's good, I remember I liked it

3k

And you know obviously you could 👀 check out my fics, at the moment there’s two, Ghost of a Christmas Present (4k, super lighthearted, lost christmas gift) and Untethered (8k, very very angsty but it all ends well), but there will be more.

Mmmkay byeeee

[buckingham-ashtray]

carl powers victor trevor and john fucking watson

[leafy-m]

So I finally started playing the Great Ace Attorney game and I love it so far. Ryunosuke's adorable, KAZUMA is something else. (Those gazes!! Hot damn) I'm genuinely upset I haven't seen more fanart of him on my dash, because holy shit. I've seen so much fanart for the Sherlock Holmes guy-- sorry, Herlock Sholmes (?? I haven't run into him in-game yet. Still dueling Swan Lady Ms Brett), but I can't remember ever seeing any Kazuma art. Outrageous.

Anyway this is my one-minute warning before I attack and reblog everything in the tags.

Update: fineeeeee, I will attack the tags and reblog all the fanart after I finish the games 😭 darn you spoilers. 😔

[voilaammayi]

me, entering tumblr after listening to the cardboard box pt2, seeing I am just one of us fools thinking john and sherlock would pretend to be a swingers couple for a case, and knowing we’ve found our place in the world to be fools together:

[bobcat-pie]

hear me out: Arthur Read looks like Conan Edogawa's fursona

[heyshinichiran]

"𝒮𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓀𝒾𝒹𝓈, 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊. 𝐼 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝑜 𝒷𝒶𝒹𝓁𝓎."

[johnhwatsonblogs]

Hi John Watson, hope you find yourself doing good today!

Here's a simple question

Was it hard getting Sherlock on board with the whole making another blog on Tumblr plan?

Hello! Thanks for the ask! My day has been pretty well, no cases at the moment. To answer your question, it was quite hard getting Sherlock to join. It took quite a bit convincing, as he doesn’t like trying new things. But Sherlock was bored, and eventually begrudgingly agreed. I think he quite likes it, it gives him a chance to do something when he’s bored.

[which-qsmp-egg-would]

Which Egg would be the biggest fan of the Sherlock Holmes books (not tv shows or movies)?

[ineffabletwaddle13]

Lestrade can't get Holmes released from jail, but they need to help the client avoid blackmail before deadline so Watson has to break in to the criminals' office by himself

Lestrade: "yes but breaking and entering... that’s a crime. Have you any idea what the penalty is for that?"

Holmes: "Yes if I remember correctly it's..."

Watson: "Thank you very much Holmes, I'd rather not know. Excuse me"

Watson has a bit of trouble picking locks!

[mortalscience]

Law and Order Criminal Intent - s01e09 - The Good Doctor Eames: You want to rethink that answer, Mr. D'Alacosta? We looked into your pedigree… Couple DUIs, couple dope pops, delinquent on your child support. You drive too fast, drink too much, don't meet your obligations, don't give a damn about anybody. My partner has a fancy word for people like you… Psychopath. I call them screw ups. If you want to join the two million of your fellow psychopaths who’re already in jail, just keep lying to the police.